Absolute

['æbsəluːt] or ['æbsəlut]

Definition

(noun.) something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative; 'no mortal being can influence the absolute'.

(adj.) perfect or complete or pure; 'absolute loyalty'; 'absolute silence'; 'absolute truth'; 'absolute alcohol' .

(adj.) not capable of being violated or infringed; 'infrangible human rights' .

(adj.) complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; 'absolute freedom'; 'an absolute dimwit'; 'a downright lie'; 'out-and-out mayhem'; 'an out-and-out lie'; 'a rank outsider'; 'many right-down vices'; 'got the job through sheer persistence'; 'sheer stupidity' .

(adj.) not limited by law; 'an absolute monarch' .

(adj.) expressing finality with no implication of possible change; 'an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority' .

Typist: Marvin--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

(a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.

(a.) Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.

(a.) Loosed from, or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.

(a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.

(a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.

(a.) Authoritative; peremptory.

(a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.

(a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.

(n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

Typed by Dominic

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Independent, unrestricted, unqualified, unlimited, unconditional, unconditioned, complete, perfect.[2]. Despotic, arbitrary, tyrannical, tyrannous, imperious, imperative, authoritative, autocratic, dictatorial, irresponsible.[3]. Positive, actual, real, veritable, determinate, decided, genuine, categorical, unequivocal, certain.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Perfect, complete, unconditional, irrelative, irrespective, supreme, despotic,autocratic, certain, authoritative, unqualified, unequivocal, irresponsible,arbitrary

ANT:Imperfect, incomplete, conditional, conditioned, contingent, relative,dependent, constitutional, dubious, accountable, responsible

Checked by Leda

Definition

adj. free from limits or conditions: complete: unlimited: free from mixture: considered without reference to other things: unconditioned unalterable: unrestricted by constitutional checks (said of a government): (gram.) not immediately dependent: (phil.) existing in and by itself without necessary relation to any other being: capable of being conceived of as unconditioned. In the sense of being finished perfect it may be considered as opposed to the Infinite; but in the sense of being freed from restriction or condition it is evident the Infinite itself must be absolute. Opposite schools differ on the question whether the Absolute can be known under conditions of consciousness.—adv. Ab′solutely separately: unconditionally: positively: completely.—ns. Ab′soluteness; Absolū′tion release from punishment: acquittal: remission of sins declared officially by a priest or the formula by which such is expressed; Ab′solutism government where the ruler is without restriction; Ab′solutist a supporter of absolute government.—adjs. Absol′utory Absolv′atory.—The Absolute that which is absolute self-existent uncaused.

Typist: Veronica